Our Sustainable Living Report Hub

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We believe business growth should not be at the expense of people and the planet. That’s why we’ve changed the way we do business, and why we want to change the way business is done. Our business model drives growth that is consistent, profitable, competitive – and responsible.

The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) is our blueprint for achieving our vision to grow our business, whilst decoupling our environmental footprint from our growth and increasing our positive social impact. It is driving growth through brands with purpose, taking out costs from our business, reducing risks and helping us to build trust – creating long-term value for the multiple stakeholders we serve.

Our Sustainable Living Report

Our Sustainable Living Report is published across the Sustainable Living section of our website. From this hub page you can find out about our Strategy for sustainable business and how we are seeking to drive Transformational change to the broader systems of which we are part - by using our scale and influence in four important areas.

Our Report includes our performance against the commitments in our Plan, as summarised in the graphic below. For each of the nine pillars of our Plan, we set out our Strategy; an account of our Targets & Performance; and how we are Taking Action to drive value for our business and society.

Our Plan sets stretching targets, including how we source raw materials and how consumers use our brands. It has three big goals, supported by commitments and targets grouped across nine pillars which span our social, economic and environmental performance across the value chain. See USLP Performance Summary 2016 (PDF | 4MB) or the boxes below for the latest performance across all the targets in our Plan.

We have three big goals

Improving Health
and well-being
for more than

1 billion

By 2020 we will help more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being.

Health & hygiene

Improving nutrition

By 2020 we will help more than a billion people to improve their health and hygiene. This will help reduce the incidence of life-threatening diseases like diarrhoea.

We will continually work to improve the taste and nutritional quality of all our products. The majority of our products meet, or are better than, benchmarks based on national nutritional recommendations. Our commitment goes further: by 2020, we will double the proportion of our portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, based on globally recognised dietary guidelines. This will help hundreds of millions of people to achieve a healthier diet.

† Independently assured by PwC.
* Our environmental targets are expressed on a 'per consumer use' basis. This means a single use, portion or serving of a product.
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In seven water-scarce countries representing around half the world's population.